Kubernetes Cloud Platform Lead Engineer

Akamai Technologies GmbH; Cambridge, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

PTO

Job summary

Akamai Technologies GmbH is seeking a Principal Software Engineer Lead to steer the Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform on our IaaS offering. You will drive architecture, lead agile teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and security stakeholders.

You will own the roadmap, design enterprise features, and foster rapid innovation while ensuring reliability and security across the platform. This role rewards leadership with impact and growth within Akamai.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Leadership experience in Cloud Native Platform Engineering, driving toward an enabled ecosystem of capabilities.
• Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• Expert knowledge of the Go programming language and comfortable leveraging Python or Bash for scripting needs.
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP) and Linux-based operating systems.
• Expertise leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Leading the development of the cloud native platform built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies.
• Contributing to and shaping the engineering roadmap with management and stakeholders.
• Contributing to enterprise features expected from a cloud native platform.
• Developing best practices, knowledge sharing, and mentoring.
• Leading and collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Fostering an environment that encourages innovative solutions and rapid development cycles.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Cloud-Native

Python

Bash

Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP)

Linux

CI/CD

Leadership

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Akamai Technologies GmbH is seeking a Principal Software Engineer Lead to steer the Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform on our IaaS offering. You will drive architecture, lead agile teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and security stakeholders.

You will own the roadmap, design enterprise features, and foster rapid innovation while ensuring reliability and security across the platform. This role rewards leadership with impact and growth within Akamai.